Joan illuzzi-orbon staten island

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A veteran prosecutor and Grasmere resident responsible for the successful prosecution of Harvey Weinstein, and winner of a conviction in the infamous murder of Etan Patz, has decided to leave her post at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

A source confirmed to the New York Post that senior trial counsel Joan Illuzzi-Orbon has left her position.

Her last day was Friday. At least nine other lawyers have also left the office.

lluzzi-Orbon had been at the office since , taking a brief leave in for an unsuccessful run for district attorney on Staten Island.

Joan illuzzi-orbon staten island Rather than speaking to the media, Illuzzi-Orbon reserved all her punches for the courtroom. Rachel Reeves 'will ease Labour's non-dom crackdown' after exodus of millionaires from the UK These organ transplant patients had sudden personality changes after surgery After an initial mistrial, a second jury found Pedro Hernandez guilty, and he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Illuzzi-Orbon is no stranger to high-stakes trials.

She lost to Michael McMahon, the current district attorney. Previously, she was also the head of the Hate Crimes Unit.

Illuzzi-Orbon was named the lead prosecutor in the Harvey Weinstein case back in Other notable achievements include prosecuting a weapons case against rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne in The celebrity defendants accepted a plea deal.

A source told the Post that none of the departing lawyers had been fired, adding that it may stem from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s controversial memo issued on Jan.

3. which instructed assistant district attorneys to not seek prison sentences for many criminals and to downgrade some felonies to misdemeanors.

“They didn’t want to work in this kind of office,’' a law enforcement source disclosed. “They wanted to continue prosecuting the law.”

In a interview with the Advance/, lluzzi-Orbon said she didn’t know she wanted to be a prosecutor until her second year of law school, when she was interviewing for jobs at large private firms and felt called to prosecution.

“My gut told me this is where I was going to fit in and this was where I was going to do the best work I could,” she said at the time.

To ensure that justice was sought, “my rule of thumb was very simple: I made sure that I was sure beyond a reasonable doubt before I would walk into a courtroom and ask 12 people to decide if somebody was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,’' she said.

Putting an innocent person in jail is a “prosecutor’s worst nightmare,” she said, and if someone is incarcerated wrongly and new evidence comes out to exonerate, “the good prosecutor is that person’s best friend.”